NEI Nuclear Notes

Working in the online space, rarely do I find myself printing up a document that can be read on the Web. (What is thing you call paper ?) It happened this week, after seeing Richard Lester , a professor at MIT, deliver the keynote address at a National Governors Association conference in Philadelphia. Lester likes nuclear ("Nuclear power is the only carbon-free energy source that is already contributing on a large scale and that is also expandable with few inherent limits."), but it was his coining of a new metaphor (new to me, anyway) to describe the global energy challenges that made me want a hard copy of his illuminating speech . Some are calling for a crash program by the federal government - a Manhattan Project or an Apollo Project for energy innovation. These calls helpfully communicate the urgency and the scale of the challenge. But in another sense they are a distraction because, if we take them literally, we will end up solving the wrong problem. In both the Apo...